PHP : Get redirect URL using cURL

Trick for retrieving the redirect URL using PHP cURL :
Ever got irritated when you trying loading a URL with PHP cURL function and its actually redirecting you to a new url and you programmatically want to find the actual URL or redirected URL so here is the function you are looking for:

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function getActualURL($url){
$ch = curl_init();
$timeout = 0;
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, $timeout);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, TRUE);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_BINARYTRANSFER, 1);
// Getting binary data
$header = curl_exec($ch);
$retVal = array();
$fields = explode("\r\n", preg_replace('/\x0D\x0A[\x09\x20]+/', ' ', $header));
foreach( $fields as $field ) {
if( preg_match('/([^:]+): (.+)/m', $field, $match) ) {
$match[1] = preg_replace('/(?<=^|[\x09\x20\x2D])./e', 'strtoupper("\0")', strtolower(trim($match[1])));
if( isset($retVal[$match[1]]) ) {
$retVal[$match[1]] = array($retVal[$match[1]], $match[2]);
} else {
$retVal[$match[1]] = trim($match[2]);
}
}
}
//here is the header info parsed out
echo '<pre>';
print_r($retVal);
echo '</pre>';
//here is the redirect
if (isset($retVal['Location'])){
echo $retVal['Location'];
} else {
//keep in mind that if it is a direct link to the image the location header will be missing
echo $_GET[$urlKey];
}
curl_close($ch);
}
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Hope someone will find this helpfull,
Happy coding :-)